, 1887-05-03
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.


The Hawaiian queen has arrived at Chi
csgo.
Gassellin, the distinguished French
engineer, 10 dead.
Schnaebele has returned to his home at
Pagny-sur-M osellc.
Cardinal Rampella has been appointed
Papal secretary Of state.
Kate Field had a grand reception at
Salt Lake City on Saturday.
The Pennsylvania railroad has declared
a %semi-annual dividend of q per cent.
Two large warehouses were burned at
Louisville, yesterday. Loss, $3.50, 900.
The reported clew to the Papago train
robbery proves without foundation in
fact.
Deserters from the Soudanese report
the rebel forces disaffocted and losing
ground.
Gen. Saletta. commander of the Italian
forces, has proclaimed a blockade at Mas.
sowah.
Prince Jerome Bonaparte has had an
attack of apoplexy and is in a dangerous
condition.
Cholera is epidemic in Chile. 2,S73 per-
SONS having died of the disease in San
tiago alone.
The rains, which dispelled the Texas
| 1rOpth ANNA 100 late 10 ,oro Al. 1850,
and wheat crops.
An unknown man Jumped from the sus-
pension bridge at Cincinnati yesterday
and was drowned.
President Keep, of the Chicago &
Northwestern railway. has declared his
intention to resign.
The boilers of a tugboat burst at Pitts
burg, yesterday, killing one man and ia
tally iniuring two others.
District Attorney MCGOWAN, of Queens
county, N. Y, has gone to Canada, leav'
ing q shortage of 10000.
A. NJ, Palmer, of the Madison Square
theater, has been appointed receiver of
BARLEY Campbell's estate.
The marquis of Harrington has written
a letter advising the Liberal Unionists to
organize as a separate party.
The schooner Louie O'Neil was sunk
in Lake Erie by the gale of last Thurs
day, and eight lives were lost.
The new building of the Boston Globe
was opened Sunday for a reception to
1900 newspaper men of that city.
A report is current in Liverpool thai
important arrests are about to be made o.
dynamiters having dealings with America.
st. Paul, MINI, was visited on Sun
day with a severe hailstorm, many Of
the stones being of the size of goose eggs.
Chicago hod carriers and laborers, to
the number of 5000, have struck for an
advance of from three to FIVE cents an
hour.
Judge Donahue, of New York has or.
dered the St. Louis and San Francisco
railroad to allow an inspection of its
books.
The remains Of the CO mposer Rossini
were exhumed at Pere la Chaise cemetery,
Paris, yesterday and sent to Florence for
final interment.
James N. Taggart, paying teller of the
Union Trust company of Philadelphia.
has absconded leaving a deficit of some
thing less than 800, 600.
Fotheringham, charged with being an
accomplice in the express robbery on the
st. Louis & San Francisco. sono month,
ago, is on trial at st. Louis.
Franz Lenbach, the famous German
painter, has been betrothed to the Coun'
tess Magdalena Won Moltke, a distant
relative of Marshal Won Moltke.
William O'Brien, editor of United Ire.
land, is on his way to Canada. accompan,
led by an eyicted tenant of Lord Lans-
downe, to stir up tho Canadians against
their governor general.
The divorce suit of Mrs. Alice O'Keefa
against Ross Winans, the Baltimore mil
l~ionaire has been decided adverselr &c
her, the New York supreme court hold.
ing hat she was never married tc
Winans.